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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Creating CSV files for importing in to Captivate

Now that the Question Slides defined in the CSV file have been imported in Captivate, let's discuss the creation of CSV files. The biggest advantage of CSVs over GIFT files is that you can use any spreadsheet application to generate and edit CSV files. To help you generate compliant CSV that can be imported flawlessly into Captivate 2019, the Captivate team provides two templates to help you out. This is what you will review in this section, using the following steps: 

  1. [Windows] Use Windows Explorer to navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2019 x64\Gallery\Quiz
  2. [MAC] Use the Finder to navigate to /Applications/Adobe Captivate 2019/Gallery/Quiz

The following screenshot shows the content of this folder as seen on a Mac:

There are two important template files that you can use to create CSV files that can be imported in Adobe Captivate 2019:

  • SampleQuestions.csv is a CSV file containing one example of...